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Joanne Harris


UK flag (b.1964)

aka Joanne M Harris

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television.
In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE by the Queen.
Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She also spends too much time on Twitter; plays flute and bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16; and works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire.
 

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
 
New and upcoming books
March 2025

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Vianne
 
Series
Vianne Rocher
   1. Chocolat (1998)
   2. The Lollipop Shoes (2007)

     aka The Girl with No Shadow

   3. Peaches for Monsieur le Cure (2012)
     aka Peaches for Father Francis
   4. The Strawberry Thief (2019)
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Malbry
   1. Blueeyedboy (2010)
   2. Gentlemen and Players (2005)
   3. Different Class (2016)
   4. A Narrow Door (2021)
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Non fiction show
 
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Joanne Harris recommends
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Word Monkey (2023)
Christopher Fowler
"His literary comic lightness of touch was on a par with woodhouse."
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Inanna (2023)
(Sumerians, book 1)
Emily H Wilson
"I love it! Spectacular storytelling, vibrant prose, wonderful handling of multiple narrators, and genuinely gripping. I haven't read a historical novel this good for years: it's reminiscent of Rosemary Sutcliff at her peak."
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Our Hideous Progeny (2023)
C E McGill
"A wonderful book; dark, passionate, multi-layered and rich with enticing detail."

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Anthologies containing stories by Joanne Harris
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Dead Letters (2016)
An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned...
edited by
Conrad Williams

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Awards
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (1999) : Chocolat
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (2007) : Gentlemen and Players


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